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Suspicious Almanac Carriers

A friend sent this to me accompanied by this short but very illuminating comment: "I can not see the difference between the jokes and the real news anymore." He couldn't be more right!

The first line of the story says it all: "The FBI is warning police nationwide to be alert for people carrying almanacs..."

Apparently the admirals of our battle with terrorists have figured people may use anything that is a source of information as they "could be used for terrorist planning." Next will be dictionaries, encyclopedias, radios, TV sets and mother of all sources of information; the Internet.

After all, all these indispensable information such as "everything from abbreviations to weather trends" are much more available and accessible with a few clicks at your local public library or Kinko's. So why would you scare people into looking for bogeymen carrying Almanacs?

I just hope one day people will wake up and not let their intelligence be insulted so easily.

Posted by Pedram at December 29, 2003 11:43 PM